wrap sb (up) in cotton wool
UKto try to protect someone too carefully:
You can't wrap (up) your children in cotton wool forever.
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Defending and protecting
- baby
- bandobast
- bastion
- biodefence
- cherish
- featherbed
- guard
- kill
- mollycoddle
- mother
- out of harm's way idiom
- overprotective
- patrol
- proof
- proof
- protect
- protective
- rustproof
- wet nurse
- wrap
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